Car Transport Connection
Car Transport Connection
AN INSTANT-QUOTE AUTO TRANSPORT PLATFORM
Strategy
- Platform Development
- Machine Learning
- Stripe Integration
- Operations Automation
A broker that only works if price and dispatch connect.
Car Transport Connection is a nationwide auto transport broker. The business only works if a shipper can get a real price fast, and if the dispatcher can put that paid job on a truck. Before the platform, those were separate chores.
Quote, payment, and the load board were not connected
CTC needed branded quoting, a paid booking fee, customer and dispatcher accounts, and Super Dispatch in one application. Not a brochure site with a contact form.
A full platform on Next.js + Stripe
We built the product on Next.js: instant quotes, Stripe checkout for the booking fee, Prisma for quotes and bookings, a dispatcher queue, and Super Dispatch for posting loads. The public site is the front door. The admin is the desk.
An XGBoost quote engine on a cheap API
We cleaned a large historical load sheet in Python, trained XGBoost on thousands of cleaned historical loads, and shipped it as a FastAPI service. The Next.js quote form calls that API. A shipper gets a price that moves with season, equipment, and how many cars are on the order. It prices from distance, time of year, open vs enclosed, multi-vehicle, and how common the lane is. Season and vehicle count are in the features, which is why summer and hard lanes can still miss — the model is honest, not magic. The live quote hits a cheap FastAPI on Railway.
Live and taking quotes
Shippers price a move on cartransportconnection.com and pay the booking fee in the same session. Dispatch works the paid jobs from one queue and posts them to the load board. The current chapter is making the site rank and tightening the ops loop on top of that stack.
A shipper can price a move and pay. A dispatcher can post the load. One product.